smashingsecurity.comadded August 2026
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley1d ago
At Black Hat this month, a group of security researchers took a $9,000 robot dog, plugged Google's AI into its brain, and jailbroke it by telling it - with a completely straight face - that it was...
55%plop scoreSmashing Securityby Graham Cluley8d ago
Would you like access to Anthropic's Claude at 90% off the normal price? All you have to do is redirect your traffic to a mysterious service called "Poison Claude".
55%plop scoreSmashing Securityby Graham Cluley15d ago
Graham gets a phone call from the police. Well, someone who sounds convincingly like the police. There's just one small problem: what they really want is the 24-word seed key to Graham's...
54%plop scoreSmashing Securityby Graham Cluley29d ago
A Russian intelligence-linked hacker is arrested in Thailand while enjoying a beach holiday - and the trail of evidence that nailed him to the Russian government includes 14 separate orders of...
53%plop scoreSmashing Securityby Graham Cluley15 Jul 2026
An app has appeared in India that lets anyone with a smartphone stop a passing e-rickshaw dead in its tracks - no login, no passwords, no permissions needed.
55%plop scoreSmashing Securityby Graham Cluley1 Jul 2026
Polymarket has built an entire business on predicting the future. So how did it manage to spectacularly fail to predict its own hack?
53%plop scoreSmashing Securityby Graham Cluley10 Jun 2026
Researchers at the University of Toronto have built a worm that thinks for itself. Using free off-the-shelf AI models it works out how to break into each new computer it encounters, and hijacks the...
54%plop scoreSmashing Securityby Graham Cluley27 May 2026
CISA, the US government agency whose entire job is keeping America's critical infrastructure safe from hackers, has had a contractor publish dozens of plain-text credentials to a public GitHub...
52%plop scoreSmashing Securityby Graham Cluley20 May 2026
A 23-year-old radio enthusiast spent £300 on a piece of kit from the internet, and used it to bring four packed high-speed trains to a screeching halt. His defence in court?
55%plop scoreSmashing Securityby Graham Cluley13 May 2026
Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history - affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students mid-finals.
55%plop scoreSmashing Securityby Graham Cluley29 Apr 2026
A developer at an AI startup wanted to cheat at Roblox. They downloaded a dodgy script on their work laptop.
54%plop scoreSmashing Securityby Graham Cluley22 Apr 2026
A company that ran anonymous tip lines for 35,000 American schools - handling reports of bullying, weapons, and self-harm - boasted on its website that it had suffered zero security breaches in...
54%plop scoreSmashing Securityby Graham Cluley15 Apr 2026
A hacking group claims to have broken into the flood defence system protecting Venice's Piazza San Marco - and is offering to sell access to whoever wants it. The asking price?
53%plop scoreSmashing Securityby Graham Cluley8 Apr 2026
LinkedIn has been secretly scanning your browser for over 6,000 installed extensions — on every single click you make.
54%plop scoreSmashing Securityby Graham Cluley26 Mar 2026
A disgruntled data analyst decides that the best response to losing his contract is to steal the entire company payroll database and demand $2.5 million in Bitcoin - signing his extortion emails...
52%plop scoreSmashing Securityby Graham Cluley19 Mar 2026
In episode 459 of Smashing Security, we dive into a chillingly clever account takeover attempt targeting WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg - involving MFA fatigue, real Apple alerts, a convincing...
54%plop scoreSmashing Securityby Graham Cluley12 Mar 2026
A Wikipedia security engineer accidentally wakes a dormant JavaScript worm that hadn't stirred since 2024 - and within minutes, giant woodpecker images are plastered across the internet's favourite...
52%plop scoreSmashing Securityby Graham Cluley26 Feb 2026
When the mysterious operator of an internet archiving-service decided to silence a curious Finnish blogger, they didn’t just send a stroppy email - they allegedly weaponised their own CAPTCHA page...
54%plop scoreSmashing Securityby Graham Cluley12 Feb 2026
AI bots are having existential crises, inventing religions, and allegedly plotting against humanity... or so the internet would have you believe.
53%plop scoreSmashing Securityby Graham Cluley5 Feb 2026
Supposedly redacted Jeffrey Epstein files can still reveal exactly who they’re talking about - especially when AI, LinkedIn, and a few biographical breadcrumbs do the heavy lifting.
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